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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

The life, the character and the destinies
of the American people have been, and are
to be, continuous, Let us then, carefully
study our past that we may be equal to our
present, and prepare for the future Es-
pecially let us master the great eras, when
the new departures We're taken and the
settlements of organic questions were made.
OF course We shall in our researches come
upon much that seems irrelevant or unim-
portant but it all serves to connect and
put in the right relation the more instruc-
tive passages Of course, too, we cannot
remember all we read. The modern mem
ory, with its multtudinous distractions, is
VIGOROUSLY leaky; but continued study is
an excellent corrective to the frittering in
huences of papers and magazines; and,
besides, there is such a thing as imbibing
solid mental nourishment which makes a
man wiser and better although the raw
ingredients Of facts aud statistics shall have
long departed from his memory. This
excellent advice from the Boston Journal is
being put into practical use by thousands OF
Chautauquans all over the United States,
and in our own town circle of twenty-five
or more are finding pleasure as well as pro
fit in review of our country's history,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11
NO. 40.
Railroads nnd wheat.

Ifrum the Boston Advertiser
The record of railway progress prepared
by the Railway Age is one Of unprecedented
growth. More track has been laid thus
far this year than in any previous year in
the history Of this or any other country.
1t is evident that the West is alive to the
fact that only 10y unprecedented railway fa-
cilities can we hope TO compete successfully
with Eastern and Russian fields of produce
To maintain or advance our wheat exports,
every effort should be made The exports
of breadstuifs from India in 1879 were less
than 5000, 900 bushels six years later they
had grown TO over 40,00O,000 In the
same time our exports fell off from 1872
600, 900 bushels to j0,000,000 The price
of American wheat has fallen in England
from l2s. Cd. since 1878 to 6s 3D., and to
make sales profitable at this price or less,
the expenses of production and transporta-
tion must be cut down to the lowest point
practicable, for the Indian producer is aid
ed in the contest by the fact that although
the gold price of silver in London has fall
en- from GOD. to Ijd. per ounce, the rupee
has actually increased in purchasing pow
er in India
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11
Enfant Terrible-And did they go

Enfant Terrible-And did they go into
the ark two by two
Mamma-Yes, dearest.
Enfant Terrible-Well, who went with
auntie
While the lamp holds out to burn, there
is not much danger of the average servant
filling it.-Hdpers Bdzdr.
A Michigan girl has found 2l2j four-leaf
clovers and isn't married yet An Omaha
girl who found out how to make pumpkin
pie was married in three months. .-Omdhd
World.
"Thev say Charlie has married. Is she
well-informed woman :" "Well, / should
say so She has belonged TO the sewing
circle for ten years and never missed
meeting"
"And what do you think of the engage
ment ring sent you, Jennie = inquired a
lover, tenderly. Jennie answered in de
| lighted tones, "Oh. it is beautiful-in fact,
the handsomest one l ever had given me-"
George, asked the teacher of Sunday
school class, "whom above all others, shall
you wish to see when you get to heaven =
With face Frightening up with antclpa-
ton, the little fellow shouted, "Gerliah !"
pa said little Johnny McSwilligan,
| "here's piece in the paper about parasites
what are they " Parasites, my boy,
are people who live in Paris l think you
ought TO know that, and you in the third
reader. ~. Y Dispatch.
The Texas woman who has just patented
a pie safe squandered her inventive genius
in the wrong direction. What the country
aches for is not pie-safe, but safe pie.
-Phiiddeiphid Press.
Wife-"There were two hats that liked,
one for Sl3 and one for SlS,' Husband
(Which did you decide upon y Wife-"The
SlS one I'm a little superstitious about
the number l3. IN. Y. Sun.
"Now, Mary Ann, said the teacher, ad-
dressing the foremost of the class in myth
ology, "who was it that supported the world
on his shoulders p ''It was Atlas, ma'am.
"And who supported Atlas y ''Ihe book
doesn't say, but guess his wife supported
him "-Chicdgo Sunday National.
The struggles of conscientious child in
its efforts 10 be truthful are sometimes pa
thetic. Myrtle, at the age of two, was very
fond of playing with the articles on her
mothers dressing case, but had been for
hidden to do so. One day she was absent
in the bed room for some time, returning
with guilty face, No question was asked
but after a period of inward conflict the
little one remarked, "There was picture
in oor glass of little Myrtle touching ooI
iings. n-BdbyhOOd
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

is rapidly propelled by the wind. Mr.. Sned-
igar was in Minneapolis few days since,
says the Tribune Of that city, and gave an
exhibition Of his wind wagon. The sail
was some six feet high, Of three-corner or
iibsail shape 1t was attached to one
horse road-wagon by mast and stay yropes
Two men occupied the wagon one manag
ed the sail, the other did the steering. This
was done 10y ropes fastened TO the thils in
such a manner as to easily turn the front
wheels to the right or left. quickly guiding
it in the direction desired. The wagon and
its two occupants went through the streets
at the rate Of about six miles an hour I;
when out of the business part of the city it
was allowed TO go from ten to twelve miles
an hour with a pretty stiff breeze. Mr.
Snedigar went from Iroquos to Huron, a
distance of lS miles, in an hour and half
the wind blowing very slightly, and says
that when the wind has a velocity of %
miles an hour he can travel from l2 to 10
miles with ease.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

HUNG THE WRONG MANA singular
and romantic story came out in the course
of legal hearing before Judge Andrews
in the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn
A motion was made to sell certain stocks
belonging to the estate of Robert Sproul
late of British Columbia Sproul was
agent for a Connecticut company engaged
in working a mine on the other side of the
American line He was charged with muir
der, and the company advanced him $500
to defend himself, and he in turn gave his
stock to the company. He was sentenced
to be hung, and after being granted five
resptes by the Canadian government the
sentence was carried into execution. 1t af
terward appeared that the government had
hung the wrong man.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11
MISCELLANY.


As frosty Age renews the early fire
Whose eager flame Ia haly warmth appears
And brings again, across the shndowy years,
The vanished dreams that kindle and inspire;
As time repeats the hour Of young desire
In smoother laughter and more tranquil tears,
And childish pleasures mixed with needless lear
Stir through the pulses Of the withered sire
So when November, sharp with frost and sleet
And moaning winds about the rocky height,
Has reaped the shining forest to his hand,
The charm Of spring returns In mellower heat
To veil the leatless hills with purple light
Aud brood IN peace above the naked land.
Dora Read GOOduie in the Century.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

no one who might call Mr.. Grey, sir
Mr. Grey is h'out'
The story had taken long to tell, but
hung upon every word Of it, and as it came
to an end the honest. loving grey eyes look
ed full in mine, and my hands we're once
more imprisoned "You know my story
now. my darling if / thought that You
could-that you could-that you would ~
BLESS you she won't mind broke in
upon us in hoarsely confidential tones, and
springing up we faced round toward the
window whence came the startling sounds.
Mikes protecting arm was round me in
an instant, and Polly, swinging violently
head downward from the ring inside the
cage, shrieked aloud Hannah Hannah
you don't mind, do you 2"
And this time didn't -MDTrdy's Mago-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11


The Chicago Herald thus makes note of
the loings Of woman noted in the fields
Of finance:
Hetty Green, worth twice as much, prob
ably, as Phil Armour, weighs Just about
the same and gets down to her Dearborn
street office at Just about the same hour
that the packer reaches his La Sale street
headquarters All these statements are at
variance with popular notion. Very few
people. indeed, probably have had any idea
that Hetty Green had Chicago office
Then, too, every popular picture of the
woman worth S.i2, ,0UO, 900 has been of a
thin, angular vinegary female whose
clothes dragged on the ground. She is, in
fact, big plump woman, who must turn
the scale at lSO pounds, and her togs are
first-cass The Rowland block is here, and
her private office is on the second floor, in
the rooms of her Chicago agents, She has
been here some weeks, and her son, an am
liable, unassuming sort of young fellow, is
here permanently, over at 42 Ann street
A broker who had a loan TO make met
Hetty Green ON the street at . o'clock one
morning this week and presented the op-
portunity 10 her. That was offered to me
at o'clock this morning" she said sharply,
an idea that women with more money than
they knew how TO invest laid abed until
about 10, Mrs. Green doesn't spend any
of her money at the hotels. She takes
lodging with her agent down on the South
side comes down town on an early car,
{ and during the day walking is good enough
for her. The boy doesn't weigh much more
than half as much as his mother, but has
/ some Of the maternal instincts. To go to
/ the expense of printing a business card
would be an abomination. So he has a lit
tie rubber stamp, and when card is at all
necessary he tears off little piece of pa,
1 per-from a newspaper in one instance that
| the writer knows of-and stamps thereon
| "E. II. Green, Real Estate, ~ Ann street. -
/ Hetty Green owns the Rowland block.
She loaned Honore $3.50, 900 on it when he
was flying high, and when he couldn't pay
the interest Hetty took the property,
/ broker says he'd like TO have it 20 sell now
at $3.50, 900. She had $3.50, 600 mortgage
on the Major block at the same time and
was very much disgruntled because the
owner was enabled to get around and re
deem, She has big blocks of improved
property all over the city. Her big invest
ment here, however, is in loans. They are
believed to aggregate about 81, ,0OO,0OO
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

DO you suffer with catarrhf You can Dr. cured
II you take Hoods SaisapnrillA, the great blood
puriiier Sold by all druggists
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

Sick Headache aud relieve ull tine trouble incident
to bilious state of the ~ystriI such AS bl.nrs>.
Nausea, DrowsiurSs. bstrcs, after eating, Pam iu
the Side &c While their most remarkable siy.
cess has h.tn show u in curiuX
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11

The Chicago Herald thus makes note of
the loings of woman noted in the fields
Of finance:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-11
HEAD

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others do not
Carters Littl- Liver Pills arr very suall aud
very easy to take. Onr or tNo pills make dose
They are strictly vegetable and du not grpe or
purge hut by their gentle action please all VIII,
use them In Vlal- a. - cents. i've FOR - Sold
10y druggists every whrr'. or sent by mail
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
WATERvILLE.

The town schools re-opened Monday after
the Thanksgiving recess.
Judging from the tickets thus far sold Il
good audience will greet Janauschek at City
hall Wednesday evening.
Wateryille lodge, A. q. L. W, held "A
pleasant sociable at their hall Tuesday even
ing. special effort is being made this fall
to increase the membership of the lodge, al
though it is already large and fourishing
one.
The new hall of the Waterville Y. NJ c.
A. in Boutelle block was dedicated Tuesday
evening. The exercises consisted of sup
per in City hall at p, NJ, followed by
speeches from President Pepper of Colby
and others. The company afterwards ad-
journed TO the association rooms for a social
good time.
Mr.. George Terry, of Bangor, was in town
Monday.
The water company is supplying few
houses by means of the pump at Lockwood
Mills. 1t was a wise move for the company
to purchase the old line of pipes owned by
the Lockwood company. They thus cstab-
lish connection with the mill pump, and in
case of accident to the pumps at the regular
convenience.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
PORTLAND'S SHIPPING.
'DRIIASp Nov

PORTLAND, Nov. %.
The large fleet of sailing vessels that occu-
pied the harbor during the greater part of
the week just closed, has disappeared over
100 sail of vessels, squarc-rigged and fore
and-atters lay at anchor in the roads and
lower harbor Monday night.
Tuesday morning, with favoring wind and
subsidcuce of the stormy weather that has
prevailed for the last few days, they began to
get under way and prepare for departure.
They presented beautiful sight rs one after
another they hoisted their canvas and sailed
out past the forts. BY . o'clock the last one
had gone.
Among them were ON" full rugged ship and
four barks bound for South America The
greater part of the others were Coastlng and
coal schoonrrs. The Ellen Cruso, Captain
Jones, with Cargo from Portland, was bound
for Monrovia, Africa. ON trading voyage
She carried IA cargo valued at Sl0,39j, con
Sisting of manufactured lumber. iron, flour,
furniture and provisions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
Another Days Developments in the Par
ker Episode.
Major Pond Gets His Back Up.
New YORK. Nov. .

New YORK. Nov. %.
Major j. b. Pond is very angry about
Deacon s. v Whites letter to a BROOKLYN
paper charging him with Withholding from
the Beecher monument fund committee the
proceeds of DIR. Parkers lecture and insn-
uating that Mr.. Pond was keeping the money
in order to cover the losses sustained bv his
contract with DIR. Parker.
Deacon White has gone off at half-cock "
said Major Pond "Ile has nothing to do
with the monument fund. The monument
committee will hear from me as soon as |
get ready to make "A statement and no
amount of newspaper clamor is going To
hurry me. Mr.. Whites charges and recr-
minations are altogether false. | have not
yet handed over the net proceeds of the lee
ture because don't know what they amount
to. Bills are coming in every day, and what
will be left of the receipts after these are
paid have no idea.
Mr.. Whites talk about the money being
obtained from sympathetic community
and by influencing the feelings of those who
loved Mr. Beecher with devotion so pure
that refined gold if inwrought with it would
have become dross is rhetorical rubbish
There was mighty little sentiment about the
affair. 1t was business matter. | had an
attraction in the form of IA famous pulpit
orator, and the people paid to see and hear
him just as they pay TO see and hear other
lecturers whom have brought to this coun-
trv
DIR. Parker was under contract to me, and
agreed to donate the proceeds of the lee
ture to the monument fund. after dcductng
regular pay of the lecturer and other ex-
penses. | will carry out my agreement
when see fit. Sentiment Devotion to
Beecher Nonsense. The owners of the
Academy of Music would not deduct penny
in the rent of the hall. The Brooklyn pa
pers with one exception, charged the full
advertising rates, and had to keep a man
over there couple of weeks on salary of
$50 week to boom the affair. Sentiment
is all very nice but it takes advertising and
booming To make lecture pay.
As an illustration of this devotion purer
than gold, which Deacon White says the
Plymouth Church people feel toward Mr..
Beecher, let me tell you an incident that oc-
CURED rcccntly.N When it was announced
last week that Henry Irving would give a
matinee benefit tomorrow for the monument
fund, offered my services to him to sell
tickets 4 week ago | received request.
from a member of Plymouth church, lady
requesting me to send her 100 tickets to sell
to the congregation did So The con-
gregaton bought just three tickets"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
GONE UNDER.


NEW YORK Nov. %.
The well known firm of Brown, Wood 4
kingman dry goods merchants of New York
Boston. Philadelp phia and Chicago, have gone
into liquidation. The firm is one of the
leading houses in the United States,
1t did business of over thirteen millions
yearly controlling many large mills. Early
in October rumors were circulated that this
immense business firm would freely effect
the stringency of the money market. This
unsettled their credit. Shortly after the
firm gave up four large mill accounts to 9th
er houses. This increased the rumor and
it is said that some of the firms paper was
recently sold in Boston for ten per cent.
1t is stated that nearly every bank in. New
England had some of their paper. When
the formal announcement was made today
that the firm would go into liquidation and
give up business no surprise was manifested
in the trades.
VIM. l.. Brown one of the partners said
today that the firm was hqudatlng and the
entire business would be wound up. No new
firm will be formed. The firm is perfectly
solvent and would have large surplus when
the business was wound up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
ERASTUS WYMAN
On the Fisheries, Reciprocity and Com.
merCial Union

PORTLAND, Nov. %.
Among the articles which the Argus will
publish tomorrow on fisheries, reciprocity
and commercial union with Canada will be
an interview with Erastus Wyman, of New
York, who expresses himself much satisfied
with the interest being taken in commercial
union in the east. ON the western border.
where the subject has been much discussed,
he says the general sentiment So far evoked
is favorable. The Press and the politicians
are as vet shy. not knowing whore the ques-
ton will land them, and while the lines of
free trade and protection are closely drawn
the platform of the scheme is broad enough
for both classes. Aside from the new mar
kctS for American goods the surplus in the
treasury could easily be reduced S5,500,0o0
,carl, by renting the duties of Canadian
products.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
A MONSTER MOOSE
Shot in the Wids of Maine.

FARAISGToS, Nov. 20.
Inc Jumbo moose recently shot near the
canada line, is Insignificant when compared
with the one just shot on Spence's river.
In the Dead River region, by A B. Douglass
noted hunter and guide The animal was
tracked on the stream, chased across the line
INTO Canasia and thence back into Maine, five
days being consumed before the fatal shot
was fired. Conductor Fred Beale of the
Sandy River Railroad, informs the Chronicle
that the animal was nine years old, measured
nine feet from the base of the horns to the
end of the tail stood 22 hands high, girth
nine feet and four inches and stretched out.
measured eighteen feet from the end of the
nose to the end of the toes The horns spread
four feet and the width of the palm was four
and onehalf inches
A crew of men have gone into the woods
after the carcass. The horns have been sold
to gentlemen in New Jersey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
JACOS SHARP
Succeeds in Getting New Trial

ALBANY. y. v, Nov. "a.
The Court of Appeals has reversed the de-
cision in Sharp's case and ordered a new trial
Tuesday night there will be consultation
about applying for Sharp's admission to bail
and motion TO that effect will probably be
made on Wednes,lav
The Judgment of the lower court is reversed
on ground that the enactment of section -
of the penal code is unconstitutional and the
protection afforded by that section renders
erroneous the admission upon Sharps trial of
his evidence before the Senate committee
which evidence is held TO have been given on
compulsion. Admission of testimony of
clerk in the legislature is also held to have
been an error.
Another error is also found in examination
of ex-Alderman Miller. The court also holds
that error was committed in admitting evil
denee of detectives regarding the absence
from the State of Maloney & Co.. and their
presence in Canada. Admission of Phelps
testimony is also pronounced an error.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
MAINE DISPATCHES.
RUMORS ABOUT BLAINE.
His Return via Japan Announced.
now de VIII be Received Providing He
Crosses the Continent.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30
lhe Herald's Washington special saws
Mr.. Blaine will return to this country via
Japan and will arrive in San Francisco June
10Th next, five days prior to the national
republican convention. He will remain in
California until the nomination has been
made One of his party managers alleges
mat Blaine will be nominated practically
without opposition, and that his presence il
California will insure him the solid vote of
the Pacific slope. His journey across the
continent is expected to be the greatest ova-
ton ever accorded an American statesman.
This dispatch strongly savors of the un-
reliable qualities which have characterized
other similar dispatches, Ed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-30
REAL ESTATE.
Transfers of Real Estate in Kennebec
/ County.

Following are the transfers of real estate
in Kennebec county for the week ending,
Saturday Nov. 26:
AUGUsTA-E. ". Whiiehouse to Helen 7. Young
land with buildings. S932: viz. school District TO
VIM. Page. land with buildings, $3.50.
tLINroN.-Nathan Brown Of Benton, to Merritt
A. Boohby of Clinton, II acres land. $50. Thos. j
Richardson to Nathan Brown, Il acres land, 500.
GARDINER.-Shem Weeks TO Fred W. SAWYER,
land, s62; james I. Elwell to Oliver l.. Dennson
land 500, Qunn Houlehan TO Catherin Houlehan
land and buildings, 300.
MoNMoUTH,-Daniel +. Marston of Monmouth to
Thomas :. Jackson of Winthrop.land In Monmouth
5000.
oAkLAND.-Cyrus Wheeler to Frank X. wellmas
land $50.
PITTsToS.-Mary J. Clark of Randolph to Alex
ander Troop of Gardiner, land In Pittston. 400.
RoME.-Henry W. Colder Of Belgrade, TO Louisa
Cummings of Winthrop, land in Rome, si00
NAssALBoRo.-JosiahB Is. Wentworth to NJ G. K.
r. Co, land in Nassaboro, S25.
WATERv RvILLE.-Afred Flood to VIM Nigue, land
$3.50 same to John Flood. land. si00 John Flood to
Alfred Flood, land. 800; {. T. Gray to Got and
Mary &. Nigue, land and buildings, 500; Millard f.
spaulding to Addie = Spaulding undivided half
of real estate, SlZ5G.
WISDsOB.-Cynthia J, Orcutt Of Windsor, to
Isedora Martin of China, land and buildings In
Windsor 5000.